I won an iPod!
It was Billy’s birthday yesterday so Billy, Chris and I went to the Chicago Auto Show. Towards the end of the day we found ourselves at the State Farm stand, where they had a full car body attached to a motion platform running NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. The fastest laptime of the day would win an iPod Shuffle.
Now as some of you may know, I have quite a bit of experience with that simulation… I told Chris and Billy, so they persuaded me to join the line. I got into the car and pulled out of the pitlane.
Not only was it a strange motion platform (which only seemed to simulate lean of the car, rather than full body movement), but automatic gears were on, as were all the driver aids… It took me the entire warm-up lap to get the hang of how the thing was going to drive - also how the motion platform was going to move.
The best time before I ran, was 32.2 seconds, closely followed in the “top five” by other 32 second laptimes. On my first lap I did a 30.7s, then I did a 30.2s.
When we left the show we went back to check, at that time I still held a 0.7s advantage over second place. I got a call this morning informing me I was a winner. The boards at the Show said that it was an iPod Shuffle, the woman this morning said iPod Nano… But whichever is great. 
Tags: 2003 Season, Apple, Chicago Auto Show, iPod, NASCAR Racing, Shuffle, State Farm